Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Obama criticizes Republican "phony scandals," "short-term thinking"

When
questions arise about why four American foreign service personnel died at the
hands of Libyan terrorists, or why a Border Patrol agent was murdered by
Mexican drug cartel thugs possessing US-provided guns, or why the Internal
Revenue Service improperly delayed action on some religious and conservative
applicants for non-profit status, or any of the numerous other irregularities
under this administration, Democrats and the agenda-driven media say,
"That's old news. Move on," as if relevance depends upon the
calendar, not the substance of the events.

And
that is a pretty convenient modus operandi: They avoid coming clean with the
American people on legitimate questions of competence for months on end, virtually
never hold guilty parties accountable, and then complain that those asking the
questions are living in the past and the answers they seek no longer matter.
And they do so knowing that millions of people won't care.

All
the while President Barack Obama blames every problem in the country on someone
or something else, and calls the government's disgraceful handling of the
aforementioned boondoggles a bunch of "phony scandals" manufactured
by Republicans. It's a great game of Beat the Clock.

But
honest Americans realize that their government failed miserably to do its job
as dictated by the US Constitution and want to know who screwed up and what
penalty they will pay for their gross incompetence and/or illegal behavior. So
far, only lip service has been paid to accountability, and some of the most likely
culprits have escaped reaping their just reward, while others have been
promoted to higher positions.

Several
months after Mr. Obama took office the Department of Justice's (DOJ) gun
running operation known as Fast and Furious began. Intended to track gun sales
to Mexican drug cartels, it backfired and Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was
murdered in 2010 by people possessing two of those guns provided by the DOJ.
The Obama administration's response was something like: "Ooops! Gawrsh, we
didn't expect any o' them guns to be used against us. Sorry 'bout that. Nothing
to see here; keep moving."

On
September 11, 2012, after multiple requests to beef up security at the American
diplomatic sites in Libya had been denied or ignored, terrorists attacked the
facilities in Benghazi, resulting in the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens,
foreign service officer Sean Smith, and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen
Doherty.

Politics
demanded that 2 months before a presidential election no screw-ups be under
investigation or terrorist activity be fresh in voters' memories, since
President Obama had declared the War on Terror over, so the administration concocted
a lame excuse that a video that hardly anyone in the entire world had seen, let
alone in Libya, caused a spontaneous demonstration at the US consulate. That
idiotic story was repeated for weeks by administration spokespersons, including
President Obama himself.

Barack
Obama, the “news” media, and millions of liberals showed little interest in the
inconveniently-timed deaths of these brave Americans.

Unanswered
questions persist, but instead of keeping these important events in front of
the American people, the media most recently have focused on the shooting of a
black high school student by a "white Hispanic" in Florida and the
birth of a future monarch in Great Britain. Perhaps if the five murdered
government employees looked like Trayvon, Mr. Obama and the media would give a
hoot.

Not
everyone is as cavalier about these tragic government failures as the
administration, Congressional Democrats and the agenda-driven media. A group
called Special Operations Veterans, the mission of which is to uncover the
truths about the Benghazi terror attack, took its demands to Capitol Hill last
week in the form of a 60-foot-long petition, which was unfurled near the steps
of the Capitol. It demanded that the government “End the cover-up” of the
attack. The petition was signed by more than 1,000 people and called for a
special congressional committee to investigate the incident.

Each
of us either believes that the deaths of the five government workers are
important, or we don't. Apparently, most people don't, or are too-easily
satisfied with the partial information provided that doesn’t explain what went
wrong.

The
Internal Revenue Service targeted scores of conservative religious and
political organizations seeking non-profit status with improper questions, and
denied action on their applications for up to two years, then tried to blame it
on a couple of rogue agents in Cincinnati, Oh. It turns out there were 12
different IRS offices involved. Now the administration tells us that the
targeting was actually non-partisan. That's a low threshold; even one liberal
organization makes that technically true. But the reality is that 292 were
conservative; 6 were liberal.

Each
of us either believes that our government must operate honorably and follow the
rules set forth for it in the US Constitution, or we don't. There is a
shockingly large faction of Americans that apparently don't, because they are
not demanding answers to these questions, or that people responsible for these
events be disciplined, or that such dishonorable and un-American activities be
stopped and government restored to functioning constitutionally.

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